Sally: My girlfriend’s jealousy and bullying are driving me away

She speaks six languages and looks like Gwyneth Paltrow’s prettier sister but her aggressive behaviour is getting too much for me to go on

The problem
I have lived with my girlfriend for five years. She speaks six languages and
looks like Gwyneth Paltrow’s prettier sister. I cannot believe my luck, yet
I fear all is not well in Eden. Before we met, she was in a relationship
with a guy in Poland and stays with him every summer. I’m not the jealous
type and quite happy in my own skin, but if I do anything on my own, I’m
abandoning her. I can’t watch TV in peace because I’m being disrespectful by
not talking to her — yet we have to eat meals in silence, otherwise it
lessens her enjoyment of the food. If I speak to another woman, she is
furious.

One minute I’m a loser and she hates me, the next she’s declaring undying love
and making me promise never to leave. She hits me at the slightest
provocation, and as she’s